Asset Management for Endowments & Foundations: Improving Investment Performance & Reducing Management Costs - Hardcover

Schneider, William; Dimeo, Robert A.; Cluck, D. Robinson

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0786310707 ISBN 13: 9780786310708

Publisher: McGraw-Hill, 1997

Synopsis

This excellent, thorough, and delightfully readable guide to asset management for foundations and endowments of 500 million or less can help your institution achieve higher growth of both capital and returns. The result? More money for your foundation¿s objectives¿and more assurance that, in all market conditions, those objectives will continue to be funded. Packed with high-level professional tips, illustrative case studies and examples, and ready-to-use forms and questionnaires to make the oversight or management of assets easier, this premier, expert-authored, and state-of-the-art guidebook is an indispensable tool for foundation and endowment managers, accountants, board members, trustees, and contributors, as well as brokers and investment consultants.

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From the Back Cover

The one book that will help you manage foundation or endowment assets. If you have fiduciary responsibility for a foundation or endowment, you're one of the best and brightest in our society. But unless you specialize in managing foundation and endowment assets, your input could be hurting the very foundation you want most to help. New laws, new complexity in the financial arena, and new understandings specific to foundations and endowments have made this area of financial management an extremely challenging field. Written by experts in foundation and endowment asset management and aimed at foundations with assets of 1 billion or less, this enlightening book can help you steer your foundation to new growth. Packed with cutting-edge financial tools, it can help you select a superlative investment manager or wisely manage the foundation's assets yourself. It can help you improve investment performance, reduce management costs--and create more funds to fulfill your foundation's high aims. In these authoritative chapters, you'll get step-by-step guidance on allocating foundation and endowment assets--a clear explanation of why learning the new procedures is worth your time--and guidance on exactly what you need to do.

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0786310707
• ISBN 13: 9780786310708
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 300